INDELICACY Amina Cain's Enigmatic Hypnotic Novel Many Will Savor, Some Not

INDELICACY is an unusual, hypnotic, enigmatic novel many will find artful but I'm doubtful it will be favored by the masses.  The heroine with whom I'm inexplicably drawn is herself drawn to the arts.  Her name, Vitoria, eludes the reader for the most part & remains unbeknownst for most of the novel.  Vitoria is a young woman who toils cleaning toilets in an unnamed art museum.  Her eyes linger on the paintings inside and for what may lie waiting should she have the means to pursue her heart's desires.  Vitoria is mesmerized by paintings; ballet and besotted with furtively writing down her observations.  The time period is unclear, and the country baffling.  The novel could be set in a contemporary or Victorian era and located on either American or European shores.  Many specifics are left intriguingly ambiguous.  Her fortuitous encounter with a wealthy young man while working at the museum leads to a hasty marriage in which she's not sure.  The marriage provides financial security & the luxury to pursue or not, her inclinations.   Having gotten her wish to indulge her fancies she pursues dance class, extravagant clothes and liberation from mundane work, happiness somehow eludes her.  Perhaps, she can be compared to "Hamilton" and never be satisfied.  The unnamed husband confronts Vitoria after having an affair with the beautiful housekeeper Solange.  He's unaware his wife had encouraged Solange as a means to release her from her unhappy marriage.  "Who are you, anyway? Just what are you attuned too.  I've only wanted to live a normal life, and with you that's impossible."  Vitoria asks herself, "Who am I if I'm not writing?"  She is more smitten with two female friendships; Dana, a ballet dancer and Antionette, her former co-worker at the museum.  Vitoria displays passion for the arts and has a healthy sexual appetite.  It wains with her husband.   Her behaviors are often puzzling & bizarre.  Vitoria, a writer & bibliophile, attends a reading by 2 authors she admires only to be disillusioned.  After, she proceeds to insult the authors.  At a party attended with her husband she becomes inebriated & turns to a female companion to dance.  Perhaps, independence & freedom are what drives Vitoria.  INDELICACY provides food for thought and challenges the reader to ponder what drives our heroine.  It also calls into question how we perceive the world.  "Life changes and veers and becomes something new."  I found this uncanny novel enticing but the chances for most to embrace it are dicey.